And so it's an incredible change, which sadly, many folks have been ignoring, but it means a great deal to the United States. I think at one time We were running numbers on what it was going to cost America for each one of the people that came across illegally, and that number was around $9,000 a year. So you can imagine how much that adds up to if you have a quarter of a million people coming across a month. Well, that's not happening anymore. (01:35–01:47)
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